Compelling commentary on children's health

Do Kids Need Cursive Writing?

With the evolution of modern communication, kids are
spending less time writing and more time typing.It’s a function of our tools – as we move from dead trees to
digital it seems like a natural sequence that children would be less proficient
in cursive writing.

Is this a problem?

While I push my own children to adopt reasonable skill in
penmanship, I’m going to go out on a limb here and suggest that the concern is
probably overrated.As personal
information technology evolves, keyborarding (not typing), touch screen applications
and voice recognition will probably render the skill obsolete.It’s a paradigm shift that’s hard for
me to grasp.But nonetheless I
think it’s inevitable.

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Do Kids Need Cursive Writing?

With the evolution of modern communication, kids are
spending less time writing and more time typing.It’s a function of our tools – as we move from dead trees to
digital it seems like a natural sequence that children would be less proficient
in cursive writing.

Is this a problem?

While I push my own children to adopt reasonable skill in
penmanship, I’m going to go out on a limb here and suggest that the concern is
probably overrated.As personal
information technology evolves, keyborarding (not typing), touch screen applications
and voice recognition will probably render the skill obsolete.It’s a paradigm shift that’s hard for
me to grasp.But nonetheless I
think it’s inevitable.